Today, the Congressional Budget Office has released an update to its budget outlook from February. With little legislative changes since February, the...

Last week, the House Budget Committee released a package of budget process reforms consisting of seven different pieces of legislation. Four of these...

Update: This blog has been updated to include numbers from the CBO score of the House farm bill. As we have written previously, the American Taxpayer...

With previously enacted deficit reduction and the economic recovery helping our short-term fiscal outlook, it may be tempting for lawmakers to put the...

Conveniently, the same day that House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee chairs Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) published a...

Two former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Martin Neil Baily of the Clinton Administration and Glenn Hubbard of the Bush Administration...

Economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University have issued an erratum to their 2010 paper, “ Growth in a Time of Debt.” Their...

A recent Washington Post article, “ As Red Ink Recedes, Pressure Fades for a Budget Deal,” suggests that a fall in the short term deficits may...

On the eve of the Senate Judiciary Committee marks up the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill, Stephen Goss, the Chief Actuary of the Social Security...